Screen GIF Maker

An awesome little tool that creates an animated GIF image of the screen around the mouse. Manually specified capture size and either centered around the mouse or focused on the mouse in the bottom left corner. A very multi-purpose tool created initialy to aid in troubleshooting where someone would come accross an error in their workflow that could not be replicated otherwise. Just have them load up the tool and capture their workflow into a gif that can then quickly be shaired via email or uploaded to a network folder for review.
Its also found use as a tool for instructions, just caputre a GIF of how to navigate through an new program install or change of settings and share it with the team in place of or as an aid to lengthly instructional documentation.

Features

  • Program packaged as a portable app that can be copied to the desktop or other continent location of any machine.
  • Creates an animated image using the universal and web safe GIF encoding.
  • Very light on resources when capturing, saving the image processing for after the capture is completed to ensure almost zero interfearence while your creating a capture.
  • Veriable capture size up to 1024x1024.
  • GIF Image Optimization to reduce total image file size by up to 40%
  • Settings to hide or show the cursor in the GIF.
  • Hides main window to the Task Tray when capturing.

System Requirements

Hardware

Software

Network ConnectionWindows XP, Vista, 7, 8
.NET Framework 4.5

Builds

Screen GIF Maker v1.0.0.7 (Latest)

Screen GIF Maker v1.0.0.6


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